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hiro:
--- Quote from: bmarkus on March 24, 2021, 12:13:24 PM ---The issue is to get a database backup which requires SSH access to the hosting machine what we do not have.
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maybe with phpmyadmin or so...
curaga:
The db is too big for PHP. It times out.
sm8ps:
--- Quote from: GNUser on March 24, 2021, 08:25:46 AM ---P.S. TCL has done a lot for me (it powers my personal laptop, two routers, and family media player) and it would be nice to give back.
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Same here! Plus I have invested countless dozens of hours into the dCore wiki and it grieves me to see that they seem to have vanished in a puff.
--- Quote from: curaga on March 19, 2021, 03:47:36 AM ---The person hosting us is not replying to email.
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So we need to track down that person via other means, maybe by telephone or so. There has got to be a way to get hold of these data! Who is that person? Does anybody have personal relations, maybe via some relays? Please let us step up and do something about this because the situation is getting unbearable for many users. I have almost given up due to frustration of not being able to communicate.
Today seems to be a good day on the forum as I have had two successful attempts in posting things. I am just hoping that my lucky streak continues! Always do Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C before hitting Post though. (:
curaga:
I'm not sure he'd appreciate his name posted publicly...
I don't think we have any other info than name and email. He was just a TC user who offered to host us many years back.
sm8ps:
--- Quote from: curaga on May 29, 2021, 12:59:34 PM ---I'm not sure he'd appreciate his name posted publicly...
I don't think we have any other info than name and email. He was just a TC user who offered to host us many years back.
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Yeah, I did not think of publicly shaming somebody. Instead, I was hoping that there might be some other connections than such loose ties. Does not seem to be the case, unfortunately.
Would web scraping be a feasible idea? After all, the postings are currently (!) all available. A new forum could be set up and the old data might be migrated. On a quick glance I found Scrapy, a Python framework. Though, I do not have used it and neither do I know about the database structure of the Simple Machines forum software.
--- Quote from: curaga on April 20, 2021, 02:15:26 AM ---The db is too big for PHP. It times out.
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This is via Simple Machines DumpDatabase.php function, right (https://support.simplemachines.org/function_db/index.php, https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF2.0:Forum_Maintenance)?
Let me find out if today is another good forum day and this posting does go through or not. Ctrl-A + Ctrl-C! (:
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